While working with the city of Ottawa last year on their proposed Site Alteration By-law, staff insisted that it was important to protect agricultural land from development. The Carleton Landowners Association (CLA) voiced their skepticism that any bylaw would stop…
In Renfrew County, we are in big trouble with a restrictive Official Plan, the Watershed Study, Bill C68, Algonquin Land Claims – all of which could impact our properties. It’s time our County and our local municipalities start paying more…
People have been ruled by governments that range from dictatorships to politocracies. The most dangerous of all are bureaucracies, the mortal enemy of the people, and of true democracies. Military forces are organized as a chain-of-command pyramid. The shouts of…
Several of our prominent landowners stepped up to the plate in the recent round of Ontario Municipal elections. Running for any political office is always difficult. You basically must put your life on hold and it can be emotionally, physically,…
This year, the Ontario Landowners Association (OLA) held their Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Cobourg at the Legion on Orr Street on October 13, 2018. Twelve county groups were represented at the AGM, a very good showing. There were about…
The Carleton Landowners Association (CLA) held their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday evening, October 24th, at the Johnny LeRoux Arena (upstairs hall) in Stittsville. The meeting started promptly at 7 PM, once attendees picked up their home baked goodies…
It’s been 15 years since Marlene and I joined the landowner movement in Ontario. It is hard to believe how fast the years have gone by. We started out trying to raise attention for farmers who had lost most of…
When reading the Act, the first thing that hit me was that whomever put pen to paper and wrote this Act merely moved the onerous sections from the Green Energy Act and placed them under new sections in the Electricity…
The beautiful afternoon spent at Andrew Haydon Park in Ottawa, on Sunday September 9 proved to be the ideal setting for a group of citizens who had gathered to protest the treatment of Sir John A. MacDonald’s statue. On August…
If Michelangelo had any idea what he was doing, he’d have painted a pickled shark. Can we just agree on that? If your answer is “Heck no”, I think you might not be welcome at Britain’s Royal Academy, whose “The…
